Before going to these drastic extremes, might I suggest you check a couple
other simpler options first.  Check your CMOS settings and make sure that
it is not trying to boot from the floppy as the first boot device.

If that doesn't fix the problem, you can use any "bootable"  floppy from
any Win95 system to start the notebook and then perform the SYS C: command
to reinstall the files John mentions in  #4.


Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Chin <[log in to unmask]>


>At 12:10 AM 1/24/1999 Jim Gill wrote:
>>
>> . . . whenever [I] try to boot
>> from the HD, you get the standard "Non System disk in
>> drive. Please replace and press any key" message.
>> . . . Before I call Gateway for her, I was hopeful that
>> someone on the list might offer a simple solution.
>>
>
>Jim:
>
>As any of my students will diagnose, viz.
>Hard Drive Error Messages:
>
>1. "HDD Controller Failure" (or no activity) means
>the drive is not properly connected or set in CMOS;
>
>2. "NO ROM BASIC Press any key" means there is no
>PRIMARY DOS Partition, or the partition is not set
>active;
>
>3. "Missing Operating System" means the drive
>is not formatted; and
>
>4. "Non System Disk" or "Disk Error Replace and
>press any key to Reboot" means there are no System Files
>(operating system BOOT files, such as IO.SYS & MSDOS.SYS
>for DOS).
>
>
>Here, the Gateway's hard drive does not have Win95 system
>files on the hard drive. Therefore, you need to:
>
>A. BOOT from Win95 Startup Disk (SAME Win95 version as the
>Gateway laptop);
>
>B. From the A:\> Prompt, execute:
>
>   SYS.COM  C:
>
>If the partition is not active, go into FDISK and
>select choice 2 from the main menu and SET PARTITION ACTIVE.
>

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